The H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15 is a "H2A202" model with two solid rocket boosters (SRBs). The fairing design is 4S (4 meters in diameter.) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. is in charge of the launch service of the H-IIA.

H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15 Mission

The main mission of the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 15 is to inject its main payload, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT), into its scheduled orbit, the sun-synchronous subrecurrent orbit, then to inject seven other piggyback payloads into their respective orbits one by one.